1) if you are new to williamson you MUST download "A few things to hear before we all blow up" which is simply great.
2) i am am giving lower star grades to albums generally as an attempt to better indicate to readers as i feel we are all using 8, 9 and 10 too much and it is not useful.
SO 7/10 = good album, which this is. I'd almost give it 8 but...
this album is only an EP, so shorter in material, some of the songs are less full of detail and some have a more down feel to them.
Some tunes are, by contrast, as good as the songs on his other album.
Williamson offers "listening music". The intention that you will listen and re-listen hearing new details and allowing your mind to wander through the layers in the music. - perhaps alone in your room with something burning.
this album has 60% + of tunes with those qualities and some which as i said before are slightly more 'down' in mood (good for some people like the moody teenager) and some which lack the detail heard in his other album.
Its tough because "a few things to hear before we all blow up" has grand qualities of layers, details, stronger melodies and such - so this album is standing next to a giant.
It is however still very very good and not something anyone else is doing - quite unique and great.
i should perhaps give it 8 or 9 but this is the new tough grading scheme and 7 still = good album ;)
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